Borderline Personality Disorder

People with mental health problems are sharing the worst things people have ever said to them

Thousands of people on Twitter are sharing the most unhelpful things people have said to them about their mental health problems, as a response to a writer’s hashtag on Twitter, #ThingsPeopleHaveSaidAboutMyMentalIllness. “I’ll start,” Hattie Gladwell said. “One person told me I didn’t need medication, I just needed to be more motivated to cope with my mental health.” Quote […]

What it's like to go to work with Borderline Personality Disorder

Around lunchtime on a Wednesday last year I walked out of my local medical centre with a brand new diagnosis: borderline personality disorder. I assumed from that moment on my entire life would change. Every moment would have new context. I’d get new meds, a new therapist. I knew it would be difficult, but deep […]

‘This is what it looks like inside my head’

Having heard voices in her mind since childhood, Katy Matilda Neo turned to art to express her emotions. Then the BBC asked her to create paintings in virtual reality. Nick Duerden steps into her world Katy Matilda Neo has heard voices in her head for most of her life. She suffers from a condition called […]

'I just sat there thinking I don't belong. Now I know it's okay'

Jodie Goodacre was just eight when she experienced for the first time the sense of isolation which can come with mental health problems. She said: “I remember being on a family holiday sitting in the living room whilst the rest of the family played board games and I just sat there thinking I don’t belong […]

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